Karma the Mechanism

Author(s): Hermann Kuhn
Publisher: Crosswind Publishing Germany

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KARMA - THE MECHANISM
SUTRAS
One-sided perspectives lock our understanding into narrow boundaries. They prevent the many-faceted and colorful abundance of this world from reaching and expanding our awareness.
2 - Wrong concepts - We project concepts and models onto this world that do not correspond with reality.
Concepts based on flawed assumptions often appear surprisingly logical. We arbitrarily use the logic particular to a flawed model to justify our emotional preference for one specific limiting concept before other, more comprehensive ones.
As long as our thinking remains trapped in such logic, it is impossible to discover the flaws in its construction. Without questioning the model from an outside point of view, we limit our awareness to the limits of the erroneous concept.
As long as we firmly hold on to flawed ideas, we are subject to the psychological effect that we - consciously or subconsciously - check all experiences and events whether they fit into our cherished model. All facts that do not agree with the model are ignored, interpreted as unimportant, forgotten or not even perceived. Unfortunately this perpetuates our attachment to erroneous ideas.2
ral and suspect behavior. Whoever perceives something that science believes cannot exist, is labeled a social outsider.
This erects a high barrier before the exploration and understanding of intuitive phenomena. When we choose to see our world from a science-oriented, one-sided, materialistic point of view, we block all ac
cess to our rich inner dimensions. 2 One example: The idea that life was generated by the mixing of mate
rial substances in the surf of the oceans is hardly one hundred years old. Though entirely unproven, this model is remarkably widely believed in. It sees life as a rather unimportant side-effect of chaotically whirling matter and presumes that the continuation of the species may be the only possible value of life. If this were true, any individual existence would basically be meaningless.
For those who believe in this odd, speculative idea, all search for a purpose of life beyond this unproven model is blocked.